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Dropbox Apple Silicon (M1) install
Hi,
I recently purchased a MacBook Pro 13" with the M1 processor and I cannot seem to get a native install of Dropbox for this chipset. From searching the community, it seems like M1 support should be available in the latest installer. However, trying that plus the latest beta build all ask me to install Rosetta during installation. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Warren
Hi all,
Native Apple silicon support is now fully available. All users with Apple silicon devices will receive the native version of Dropbox automatically. If you would like to update your device manually, you can do so by clicking on the latest Stable Build and downloading the Offline Installer (Apple Silicon) file. For more information, visit the Dropbox Help Center.If you need assistance with anything else, please feel free to create a new thread and our community team will be happy to assist.
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Dear Dropbox,
Of all 453 processes running, the only one which still is Intel based... is
Dropbox👻. I was waiting for you guys and Spotify. Spotify won today.
It gave me an automatic update to a new stable version which is Apple M1 optimised.
Proof:
Dropbox.. we are waiting on you. Make it happen.
As of today, Box for Apple Silicon is out of beta so it is now fully native.
It's only Dropbox left, fully in the old Intel world, no signs of even a beta for Apple Silicon.
Apple already sells no portable computers left with Intel, and only one old iMac version and the $$$$ Mac Pro.
It's time to migrate to something else, folks. Box? OneDrive? iCloud Drive? All of them native or in beta as native now.
PlentyGoodNot sure where you found a native M1 Mac version for OneDrive (Business).
I started using Maestral (open source) for DropBox, now testing StrongSync (paid, by ExpanDrive) for OneDrive Business.So I can finally retire my old Intel MacBook and use my M1 MacBook with 100% native software.
You have had nearly 2 years since the transition to Apple Silicon was announced, Dropbox. I have been a paid customer for a very long time, but will absolutely be looking for other options if a native application is not released soon. I didn't just spend over $5K for a new MacBook Pro Max so that it could be slowed down by software from companies who can't be bothered to make the transition. So it will be goodbye Dropbox in short order when my new computer arrives if I don't see some kind of indication that Dropbox is at least working on this, complete with a timeline to its anticipated release.
- Agree with Mindspan. Apple silicon was announced a long time ago. Even the lazy folks at Adobe got their major programs updated. Who would’ve thought?!
Adobe managed to update their programs such as Illustrator or Photoshop with its 20+ years of code. And then there’s Dropbox. Basically just a little utility tool. Two years and no word of native support. Sometimes I wonder how some managers made it so far. Despite this thread the stock price is holding solid… I mean cmon!!
Same issue here, M1's are selling like hotcakes! What other laptop will have 20 hour battery life anytime soon?
Well, not our Macs either if Dropbox doesn't update their app.
Maestral is indeed a great choice for most of the essential features of Dropbox, but the one glaring omission - at least to my workflow - is that it does not yet support differential copy mode, assuring that only those bits/blocks that were changed are copied again. When you deal with very frequent changes of portions of the same file, which might be many gigabytes in size, whether only a few megabytes of the entirety of the gigabytes are copied does make a huge difference over the course of a day. But for many, if not most, people it can probably more than suffice.
Still, should paying Dropbox users really have to resort to going such a route, one year after the Apple Silicon transition was announced, and one year after a great number of important Mac developers were presenting their solutions for AS the day of the announcement? (it's a rhetorical question, in my mind)
